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ON OF THE GODS | BY REX BEACH | SYNOPSIS When Lee Ying, a prosperous Chinese | merchant of San Franeisco, announc that a son has arrived at his home, only Officer Dungé t the child is Feally a whité SORE am Fo a fends Eastern College and finds & social barrier on account of his supposed Chi- nese blood. Several attempts are made to blackmail him and fail, but succeed in getting Sam expelled from college, He oes abroad and becomes assistant to athurst, an English playwright, He meets Alanna Wagner, California helr- ess. They fall in love but Alanna learns through Alice Hart, former Bastern stu. dent, that fam is a Chinese, and public- 1y horsewhips him. Lee Ying dies before Sam arrives home. Embittered, he adopts the ways of the Orient. CHAPTER XXVL Prior to his divorce Albert Wagner had enjoyed a ce amount of home Jife but thereafter Y8 had experienced Jittle, and of late none at all. As a result he was beginning to yearn for it. That California estate of his was expensive to maintain and he loved living there, but during the past year he had scarcely been permitted to se it, for Alanna had kept him on the go and she had been content to remain in one spot hardly long enough for him 10 receive his mail. If ever there was a stormy petrel, a pigwidgeon blown on the wings of a tempest, it was she, and Wagner could not make out what had come over her, She made a thousand plans and changed them all. One day, for instance, she had refused to leave Paradis, the next day she had insisted upon leaving without a moment's de- lay: she had arranged to spend a sea- son of gaiety in New York, only to change her mind and decide on Cali- fornia, Alanna was never twice the same and yet she had the power to wrap him arcund her fingers, One moment she was loving and lovable, the next she was harsh and hateful, She was obedient and rebellious, humble and domineering by turns and always she was as restless as some Peri doing penance until it could be admitted into Paradise. They were back in New York again, why nobody knew. The Wagner sui'e at the Ambassador was like a mad- bouse; maids and bell boys were on the a some one of the several pho was constantly ringing with a elamor as irritating as a neuralgic pain. Lunches, teas, dinners, dances, theatres, all night parties, polo, races: her hours were too short to accommo- date her overlapping engagements. Wagner had set out to keep pace with her for once and she had been delighted to have him do so. She had swept him along for a while, then spurred him on when he faltered and finally rowelled him into a gallop-until{ his breath failed and he dropped hope- Jessly behind. It was not often that he saw his daughter long enough to engage her in gonversation, for she was always late --permanently late, as Wagner put it --for something or other, and she was seldom alone. Some male orchid was usually adroop over her shoulder, or some shrilly-voiced neurasthenic of her own sex was shrieking at her to "make it snappy," "step on it," "give it the gun." Occagionally there did come a chance for a word with Alanna, as, for imstancefi one night when she returned home about twelve o'clock. For once the looked exhausted, and her father was encouraged to believe there must be a limit even to her endurance. "Well, well, well!" hefbegan cheer- ily. "You certainly look rotten, In your dragging feet and haggard face I see hopeful signs of a physical col- lapse. How much longer do you think you can keep this up." "How much longer can I keep what up, jelly bean?" "This--dementia." "Bless you, I'm just getting up a comfortable glow. What about a kiss? Don't rise: I can make it." "I wish you were an old lady. Aren't you ever going to settle down?" "Horrors, no!" "I wish one of these germs would marry you. I'd accept the worst one in the outfit." "No danger. The more I consider matrimony, the better I like diph- _theria. No, I shall never marry. Iam content to remain at your side, a con- ntant cheer and comfort." Wagner leaped to his feet and strode about the room, followed by the almost derisive gaze of his daughter. Up to this point he had risen td her! banter as best he could, but now a ¢hange came over him and when he it was in an altered tone: ' "I've an idea it's all due to that infernal Chinaman." Pu "Don't let's talk about him," said Alanna. ~~ "Why not?" The father drew down a brows in & scowl; for a moment fwo stared at each other. fovetowas a pause, Without al distance. Of a sudden she had grown as white as paper. "You--know his number! called him before!" She nodded, ¥T looked it up when we came from Europe, and I've re- peated it to myself a hundred thou- sand times. I called him, but he had gone to China." "What are you going to say to him?" "I don't know. If you move or make a sound, I'll tell him to come and get me." : "Alanna! For the love of heaven--" "Smother me with a pillow! Shake it out of me! I warned you not to threaten, . . «+ =I want to hear his voice. I want to know he's there, 1 was half crazy when I came in and you. . . . Hello!" Through the silence Wagner heard a faint, metallic answer. "Is that you, Sam? This is Alanna. Oh, that explains it! But why sleep at this hour? Sam, you've been dissi- pating." ally, she was shaking, her face was strained, her eyes were wild. . . . "I don't know why, I'm cure. 1 never have a reason for doing things. Im- pulse probably. 1 want to see you. Yes, that's it, I want to see you. « + « But---there's something I must say. « . Father and I have been quarreling over you." Wagner shuddered, he felt a mois- ture start out upon his body. Alanna went on, utterly heedless of him now: "Oh, not a serious quarrel. Just our usual bedtime battle. Nothing like a few fast rounds to make you sleep. « + « Please, Sam . . « Why? Because I ask it. Isn't that enough? .... We're at the Ambassador, Please! . . Any time tomorrow. Whenever you say. . » . Thanks, old dear, Tl ex- pect you." You've feebly. That midnight message shook Sam, When morning came he experienced a peculiar indecision: he looked forward with dismay to seeing Alanna again and yet the thought of doing so sel his pulses to racing madly, stopped his breath. Well, he wouldnt go . . . And yet she had begged him. She was capable of anger but not of de- liberate malice; perhdps she really had =omething of importance to say. To change his mind now would be a confession of weakness. Torn by un- ruly desires, hot with resentment, cold with dread of the ordeal, he spent the morning in a restless PRONE of his rooms, When the hour he had set arrived he went swiftly, eagerly, as he had known he would go. Sam had named a time when the hotel lounge was likely to be least crowded and at his request Alanna met him there, Had he been less azi- tated when she came down the change in her appearance would have shock- ed him, for she was thin and drawn, there were ghosts in her eyes. It required courage on her part to meet him but, as usval, she came to him as straight as an arrow: in its flight. She put an icy hand in his and she met his gaze bravely, He was unusually pale; through his pallor the old mark of her crop stood out like a scar and for a moment she could not see anything else. The girl laughed hysteric. | There is six feet, six inches of this policeman, the deputy sheriff at Curtiss air field. It was the worst experience either of them had ever endured: when it was over they seated themselves and 3 a 1 Only for Sams inward struggle, his painful preoccupation with himself, he wistful yearning, for her self-posses- "Oh, my God!" the father exclaimed | | sion was like & mask of gauze. As time ! went on, however, she managed to as- sert better control over herself, and to take refuge behind an artificial flippancy. "I assume you go out as much as ever?" "Um-m, yes. Father says it's as and he slept no more after its receipt.! much as ever that I come in. That's hardly just for I'm seldom late for breakfast. Why, Sam, I broke a solemn engagement to see you and do my penance-- Oh, don't go! For the first time in a long while I'm in good company and it's helping me, Tell me something about yourself." "I went to China with the remains of my father. It was a painful duty but I laid them to rest in the happiest spot in all that country." ; "I gathered, somehoy, that you in. tended stayimgTthere." ~#85"1 had intended. But China wouldn't have me. Certain metals can't be made to fuse, you know, and it's the same with certain racial elements. It seems to make no difference whether they're inherited or acquired." "I presume that's true, .but I wouldn't think it applied to your case." Sam explained how it did apply, and the girl nodded her complete compre- hension. "What a pity! How un- reasonable it is--all this prejudice. And yet how real" Alanna was staring fixedly at her companion; she roused herself ard abruptly changed the subject. "Dad was in the room last night when I called you and it threw him into com- plete mental and digestive disorder. He's out yonder now, foaming like one of Wagner's Velvet Shaving Sticks. Funny, isn't it, how parents will clutch at the wheel and risk ditching Sweden Becoming Famous For Her Beauties surely would have noticed the girl's|- the whole family? They're all b= seat drivers," - ; "I would be honored to have | a join us" ? : (To be continued.) GRY SRR, The Potato Harvest A high 'bare field, brown from the plough, and borne Aslant from sunset; amber wastes of sky Washing the ridge; a clamour of crows that fly In from the wide flats where the spent tides mourn To yon their rocking roosts in pines wind-torn; A line of gray snake-fence that zig- zags by A pond and cattle, from the home- stead night The long deep summonings of the sup- per horn. Black on the ridge, against that lonely flush, A cart, and stoop-necked oxen; ranged beside Some barrels; and the day-worn har- vest folk, Here emptying their baskets, jar the hush 'With hollow thunders. dusk hillside Lumbers the wain; and day fades out like smoke. --Charles G. D. Roberts. RRRCERIRE "MAA Down the "Poems." First Traffic Laws Even the ancient Romans had to worry about parking near "the big game," and about driving the wrong way on one-way streets, according to Benjamin G. Eynon, Pennsylvania motor Vehicle Commissioner. He has discovered that the first trafic law on record, passed in'396 B.C, gave women unrestricted right to drive their chariots through the streets of Rome. "Motor vehicle operators who com- plain of one-way street regulations would have found the same condi- tion confronting them in the Rome of the period referred to," he said, "for Rome bad the first one-way streets in traffic history." He sur- mised that narrowness of Roman streets made one-way traffic neces- sary. "Conditions in the Circus Maxi mus and the market places were 80 congested thal>Julius Caesar issued an order to his trafic policemen that every person entering the mar- ket place for 10 hours after sunrise must enter on foot," he sald. ee fe Sun and Snow Sunlight is curious about snow. It glares intently, --wants to know How flakes are made, and why the crust Ot snow can powder into dust. The sunlight cannot hold aloof 'When snow is dazzling on a roof. It wants 'to know what makes it gleam, And why the eaves should run a stream, Inquisitively, sunlight peers At beauty melting into tears. It stares surpried, and does not know That its attentions melt the snow. --Helen 'Maring. i prin Instituted by Romans| | One of the most delightful things in Spain is its strange Eastern music, | and of all the music by far the most, magical is the "Malaguena." This is a plaintive little song or chant which is humn.ed under the breath, started by one, taken up and varied a little by another, carried right down the street like a thread of melody, every- one singing a few bars," Sometimes it is the veriest whisper; sometimes it rices to a wailing chant. It is quilc narrow streets of Malaga are full of Yi, 355 - Rs yee Figen Le wis. 4 aa ite 3 i aanot suffer a permanent bewildering, for you cannot place it; Tyuth Saito orgent ey it tien seems to die away altogether © "Seemingly, th. wide and begin again as a echo, bat| one to the bottom of the pit and dug with different harmonies and inter- ne to Pointy The rend i ung ool De vals and always in a minor key. Theo; phe upward! --Alfred E : e { "| "I am far too busy to enjoy money{ this str; y music, and they one that . the dife : v range os i rive. 1 have more than I want; and the difs all hum it, each one improvising | i11e»_ George Bernerd Shaw. 4 as she goes on, but it always stops of "There ate more changes going on suddenly if (it is noticed that 'any |i more fields of human belief and stranger is listening. --From "Spanish | 1c oct than ever happened at the Sunshine," by Eicanor Elsner. same time in any earlier epoch."-w A New Crime Museum The famous Black Museum at Scot- land Yard has now its counterpart in Rome, where a Museum of Crime has just been opened. . Some of the exhibits are very inter- esting. There is, for instance, a stile etto with the words "Corsican Ven- detta" on the handle, and on the blade the grim legend: "May the wound made by me prove mortal." Prisoners planning egcape have been responsible for a special section. Among the exhibits here are nails, bolts, and éven pen-nibs, which have been made into knives by the expen- diture of infinite labour. 'More ingeni- ous still is a dummy revolver, which one prisoner fashioned out of bread- crumbs and coloured black. It was so realistic that its maker was able to {Lord Lothian, ; "There is no nation on earth thay equals the British in capacity for selfe deception."--Mahatma Gandhi. * "The greatest obsiacle to interna tional order is the enormously heights ened nationalism which receives the attractive bus misapplied name of pa triotism."--Albert Einstein. i "The solution of the ¢rime problems after gli, is the solution of the boy; . | problem."--Harry Emerson Fosdick. | "Th: war ended in 1918 on the field of battie, but in the field of ideas we | have not yet outgrowr the conditions '| which brought that war about."-- {{ Nicholas Murray Butler. : "The honest way is to take the facts that we have, use what reason we have, and when we cannot answer questions, say that we do not know." --Clarence Darrow. " intimidate a warder with it and make his escape. ; br dp "If a wan has po fear, he has no brains."--Barney Oldfield. 2 "Gold in international trade is like oil in an engine; it works only if it is well distributed and moves about; if BOYS WANTED TO CASH IN ON OUR BIG FREE OFFER We want only live, aggressive youngsters to sell "RADIO _GUIDE? in every City, Town and Village in Ontario. We prefer 'boys who carry Newspaper Rotites. it all sticks in one place, the machine ery jams.'--Sir Wm. H. Beveridge. "Upon family life rests the welfare of the nation."--Mahitma Gandhi. "1% is easy to give; it is harder to make * giving unnecessary.'--Henty, Ford, J "A good, strong, wholesome, wells organized minority is essential to the ultimate success of democratic ace tion."--Alfred E. Smith. ENTE If 1 Were to Own If 1 were to own this countryside As far as a man in a day could ride, And the Tyes were mine for giving. Radio Guide, 30 Duncan §St., Toronto, Ont, Name: .<:...-- Address ... 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